【acrimony】 - A-level备考词汇

acrimony

UK:  ['ækrɪməni]

US:  ['ækrɪ.moʊni]

n.

1.(态度、语言等的)毒辣,激烈,刻毒

1 . Tis no more than exercisin' the acrimony of a gentleman when ye ask the dissent of ladies blocking' the way for steppin' between them.
请求挡在路上的女士们同意你从她们中间穿过不是一个绅士该刻毒的时候。

2 . It is bad enough when trade talks break up in acrimony; how much worse that the Geneva gathering petered out amid complacency and apathy.
贸易谈判在激烈言词中破裂就足够糟糕了，日内瓦会谈在心安理得和冷漠中结束又会更差到哪里去呢？

3 . Fantine alone refused to swing. "I don't like to have people put on airs like that, " muttered Favourite, with a good deal of acrimony.
只有芳汀一个人不肯打秋千。“我不喜欢有人装这种腔。”宠儿气愤愤地说。

4 . After years of acrimony, CARB and the AMA reached, in 1996, a Memorandum of Agreement ( "MOA" ) which seemed to be an amicable solution.
1996年，经过多年的舆论攻击，CARB和AMA达成一份协议备忘录（简称“MOA”），似乎是一个圆满的解决方案。

5 . Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
宗教的论争总是比来自其他原因的论争产生更多恶毒和不可协调的仇恨。